Z Score Neurofeedback: Clinical Applications

Z Score Neurofeedback: Clinical Applications

Language: English

Pages: 404

ISBN: 0128012919

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub

Neurofeedback is utilized by over 10,000 clinicians worldwide with new techniques and uses being found regularly. Z Score Neurofeedback is a new technique using a normative database to identify and target a specific individual’s area of dysregulation allowing for faster and more effective treatment. The book describes how to perform z Score Neurofeedback, as well as research indicating its effectiveness for a variety of disorders including pain, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, PTSD, ADHD, TBI, headache, frontal lobe disorders, or for cognitive enhancement. Suitable for clinicians as well as researchers this book is a one stop shop for those looking to understand and use this new technique.

Z-score LORETA NFB therapy for 31 patients with depression and/or associated anxiety. In addition to depression and anxiety, these patients frequently reported other coexisting problems including cognitive dysfunction, OCD, and chronic pain. Most patients were found to have quantitative electroencephalogram (QEEG) abnormalities including alpha power increase, asymmetry, or LORETA electrical dysregulation in frontal areas (Figure 5.1A and B). Figure 5.1 (A) Summary of frequently identified

which probabilities can be estimated using the auto- and cross-spectrum of the EEG in order to identify brain regions that are deregulated and depart from expected values. Linkage of symptoms and complaints to functional localization in the brain is best achieved by the use of a minimum of 19 channel EEG evaluation so that current source density and LORETA source localization can be computed. Once the linkage is made, then an individualized Z score protocol can be devised. However, in order to

perceived by his or her peers. Given the complexity and subtlety of the task of successful executive functioning, it is really not surprising that it has been overlooked as a unitary phenomenon in our prevailing mental health nosology, the DSM. It has been easier to identify local dysregulations and attempt to normalize them in hopes that the patient will improve. But chasing dysregulations for the patient who suffers from a disorder of one or more aspects of executive functioning is among the

gyrus may be assumed to have indirect effects on many deeper structures even though the NFB operant conditioning of brainwave activity is done at a site on the surface of the scalp. Strong support for this hypothesis comes from research done in Montreal, Canada, concerning children with ADHD who received NFB training with electrode placement at Cz. Using fMRI as the pre-post measure, the experimental group, as compared to the control group, showed increased activation in a number of cortical and